Lira walked through the gate at noon on the sixth day after the Ashwater crossing.
No announcement. No message sent ahead. She simply appeared at Valdenmoor's eastern gate with a travel pack and a Level 55 display and the particular quality of someone who had made a decision and was implementing it with the same deliberate pace she'd used to approach the Ashwater crossing — each kilometer a choice, each step honoring the decision.
The Domain received her the way it received every between-walker — the Stabilization function recognizing the quality of her Class and running cleaner around her, the two Death's Chosen presences already in the city creating a resonance that her Grave Walker designation added a third note to.
Kael felt her enter from two kilometers away.
He met her at the market district's edge — not the gate, the Domain had told him she was coming and which route she was taking and he'd been watching through the World Threat Response since she entered range.
